CSOC-342: Emerging Global Cities:
Urbanism and Identity

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Weekly Schedule and Readings

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Week I: January 27^th.

What is a City? Definitions, Concepts and Size
Readings:

1. Lewis Mumford, (1937), What is a city

2. D.E Bloom and Khanna: The Urban Revolution

3. Ellis Cliff;Cities In History

4. City 2.0

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Week II: February 3^rd.

Globalization and Global City :

READINGS AND STUDY QUESTIONS.

1. Appadurai, Disjunctures and Difference..

2. Globalization 101

3. What is a Global City

Please Watch;

· Global Cities_

· Global Travels of a T Shirt.

Study Questions

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Week III: February 10^th.

Conceptualizing the Global City,  What is a Global City?

Required Readings

1. S. Sassen, The Global City: Introducing the Concept

2. David Block, The Global City Defined

3. Study Questions

Please Watch;

Global Cities Documentary

Suggested Readings:

1. Fastest Growing Global Cities

2. Global Cities Report 2018

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Week IV: February 17^th.

Assignment 1 Class Presentations.

1. GLOBAL CITY DEBATE:

 What Makes a City Global?

2. Class Presentations and Discussion on Your chosen Global Cities

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Week V : February 24th.

A New Kind of Polis, The Aerotropolis

Transport – whether on four legs or four wheels – has shaped cities throughout history, how is the Fifth wave of transportation changing the very form of the city? 

Readings

1. A  new Kind of Growth: Aerotropolis:

2. Aerotropolis: The Key to a Prosperous, 21st Century Global City?Cities in the Sky

3. John Kasarda: Introduction
Study Questions

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Week VII: March 3^rd.

Class Presentation and Discussion;

Reading,

1. Cities of Future

Cultures of Mobility , Edited by Klaus Benesch

Discussion and Class Presentations.

1. What is the aerotropolis and is the aerotropolis really the city of the 21^st. century?

2. What impact will the aerotropolis have on our lives and the future of the cities themselves? Discuss this in the context of global warming, environment pollution and peek oil. Will these cities be sustainable?

Assignment II on aerotropolis is Due March 17^th..

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Week VIII : March 10^th. .

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF THE GLOBAL CITYSCAPE
Competing geographies of built environment in global cities: skyscraper verticality v sprawl
Readings: 

1. Skyscrapers as Metaphors of Modernity:

2. How politics has shaped the growth of Shanghai, and Dubai
3. skyscrapers-the-race-to-the-top_
4. Study Questions

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Week IX: March 17^th.

Singapore as Model Global City
Readings:

1. Singapore Already a Global city

2. Ayesha and Parag Khanna, Singapore as a Global City
3. Singapore: Global Hub and Gateway to the World
4. Re-Imaging Singapore through the Arts.

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Week X March 24^th.

A tale of Two Cities
Readings

1. The Dark side of Globalization
2. Cities as Solution

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___SPRING BREAK MARCH 27^th-April 4^th.

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Week XI: April 7^th.

1. City Branding and the Olympic Effect,

2. Branding The Global City, Beijing

Study Questions

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Week XII: April 14^th.

1. City Branding and the Olympic Effect, Tokyo

2. Paris and LA

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Week XIII: April 21^st.

1. Challenges Facing Global Cities in the 21st. Century.

2. Course Overview and  Projects Time

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Week XIV, & XV: April 28^th. And May 5^th.

FINAL CLASS PRESENTATIONS.

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